The new contract replaces a previous one in place since 2001.
Ten Sports had previously leased 18 MHz on Intelsat's IS-10. The sports channel now beams its channels from 27 MHz on the same satellite.
Chris McDonald, CEO of Taj TV/Ten Sports, stated, "Our business has experienced tremendous international growth over the last few years. I am very pleased to move our portfolio of channels on to the expanded transponder capacity, giving us the ability to launch additional channels across our markets from Australia over to the UK."
"I am also happy to say that in close coordination with Intelsat and our distribution teams and partners worldwide, we have smoothly and successfully migrated our nearly 10,000 decoders to the new satellite within our dual illumination period."
"Globalization of media is a significant trend in our business, and it is Intelsat's goal to assist its media customers in delivering programming in a seamless and operationally efficient manner. Intelsat offers broadcasters the best video neighbourhoods and works closely with its customers to provider the ideal capacity to enable rapid growth," said Stephen Spengler, Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific Sales. "We congratulate Ten Sports on the globalization of its programming, and are honored to support the broadcaster with its business growth."
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- United Arab Emirates: Monday, May 28 - 2007 at 08:22
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Ten Sports has signed and implemented a new multiyear deal with global satellite provider Intelsat, and in so doing has increased its transponder capacity by 50 per cent.
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ABOUT TEN SPORTS: Launched in April 2002, Taj TV's Ten Sports is watched by more viewers than any other sports channel in the sub-continent, and is available in nearly 50 million cable/ satellite households worldwide. Ten Sports is also the world's biggest producer of cricket. The Channel broadcasts cricket from Sharjah, the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Morocco throughout the Indian sub-continent and Asia, as well as in the United States (Cricket Plus), Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Ten Sports also owns the exclusive rights in its territories for the WWE, the UEFA Champions League, the U.S. Open tennis and hockey's World Cup.ABOUT INTELSAT: Intelsat is the leading provider of fixed satellite services worldwide and is the leading provider of these services to each of the media, network services/telecom and government customer sectors, enabling people and businesses everywhere constant access to information and entertainment. Intelsat offers customers a greater business potential by providing them unrivaled resources with ease of business and peace of mind. An extensive customer base, including some of the world's leading media and communications companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and government/military organizations, utilizes Intelsat's services. Real-time, constant communication with people anywhere in the world is closer, by far.
Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorMonday, May 28 - 2007 at 08:22 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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